So I've been doing some thinking, and I think I've nailed down my number one terror. The concept of infinity. The thought of literally anything happening forever gets to me unlike anything else. So naturally I decided to try to apply this to an SCP.

How about something that induces full body paralysis on the subject, I'm talking total locked-in syndrome, where not even the eyes will move. Then the anomalous effect comes in, the subject doesn't die. Ever. Aging still happens, along with the eventual deteriation that brings, but the subject's body never shuts down due to old age.

I'm toying with taking that idea to it's extreme, making it so the subject is impervious to all forms of injury, but still feels the pain of said attacks. That may be a bit over the top however.

I don't know, I'm just scraping this off of the wall. I want to apply the notion of infinity to an SCP, but how best to do it? What do you guys think? Is this worth persuing? Is it complete crap? Has it been done before? I'm gonna keep toying with this one, I can't help thinking there's a better way to use infinity, but for now, what's the consensus?

There's some fertile ground here. I had an idea a while back that would have just been a human-sized box. You put a person in it, and to them time passes at an incredibly slow rate compared to outside the box. Think of it like 1 minute outside the box = 100,000 years inside. The person inside wouldn't age, or even experience any physical discomfort. They would just be alone. With nothing. In the box. For 100,000 years.

I was going to have it be recovered from some psycho who was using it to torture people. I haven't done the research to see if it's too similar to something else on the site, and I'm busy working on other stuff. So feel free to borrow from that concept if you want.

Why do you have it so that people inside don't age, or feel discomfort though? To me that's the worst part of living forever, the "super alzheimer's" you can look forward to after you hit 1000. When I was a kid my mum worked with multiple sclerosis patients, so I've seen plenty of the diseases that hit old people and I want no part in it.

That's an idea, how about the SCP is a disease? Maybe even a contagious one, one that locks you down and infinitely prolongs you. The only issue is that diseases are done a lot here, and there doesn't appear to be any evolutionary benefit to a disease that prevents its host from actively spreading it.

I've always been intrigued by the idea that infinite time scales could effectively be "outside" our perception, i.e. if God existed, he would be able to perceive every moment in our time simultaneously, like looking at an infinitely-large mural. What could your SCP do or perceive, and thereby impart to his handlers, based on this unique perspective?

I don't know that that's the angle that would work best for this one. If we kept the total locked-in syndrome the subject wouldn't be able to move an eyeball, let alone communicate. The idea is less about doing or percieving things than the opposite - doing nothing, seeing only the ceiling of his cell, and the odd researcher come to poke him with a needle.

That's not to say that it's a bad SCP idea of course, just a different one. However, how would we find out that the subject viewed different time scales than us? By definition they would be unable to comunicate with us, and we would just see someone unresponsive, or in a coma.

The idea of the guy aging and never dying is a Greek mythology tale, don't know if that'll put you off or not.
I can't remember what they were called (soory but it's late, and my google-chi is well under 9000) but some guy demanded eternal life from the gods and they granted it, and in about 50 years he realized "Shit, I'm deathless but not ageless". 100 years later he's a shriveled up shrunken monstrosity, barely able to breath, but still alive. He gasps a prayer to the gods asking for forgiveness and death and he gets it.
Could work that in, maybe not, your call. Would be a good SCP though.

I think you meen Tithonus. Lover of Eos, she gets Zeus to make him immortal. Flash forward a few hundred years and he's turned into a cicada because magic. I wasn't going to tie any myths in at first, but that may work.

Is this too stupid? Say my guy is Tithonus, and any tales of his death/transmutation are crap. Say back in ancient times there were a cadre of reality benders, we remember them as the gods. Tithonus broke one of them's heart, and was cursed to never die. Perhaps in 17██ he got kicked in the head by a horse, and bad luck dropped him with total locked in syndrome.

Being unable to communicate and also immortal is certainly a scary thing to most people, but the idea kind of hamstrings itself — if he can't tell you anything about his condition, then you can't know how this happened to him, and if there's no indication how it happened, then it's less scary. Regular people, after all, don't wind up locked in their own bodies for centuries, so there's no sense of this could happen to me that underlies a lot of other SCPs.

It may or may not be necessary to add that, of course. It just feels like it needs more of a story to it, though. Do you have an idea in your mind for how/why this happened to him?

That's one of the things that spured the original creation of the thread. As mentioned above, I thought making the SCP a disease could work, but there is already a lot of disease SCPs out there. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I fully acknowledge that it lacks content right now, I just threw this together as a base line to work from.

I saw that. The issue is that that limits it to yes and no. Finding out root causes can degrade to a game of 20 questions on no time. I came up with an idea of an origin above, what do you think of that?

I dunno. As a matter of personal taste, I'm not so keen on the mythological SCPs, no matter whose mythology they come from. Maybe if the myth were never actually spelled out.

There's also the fact to be considered that after 200-300 years of not being able to communicate with anybody, a person would likely be more or less unable to do so. Twenty questions might be a more challenging game to play with someone who hasn't talked to anybody in centuries.

Hey guys, I did a bit of researching and a lot of pondering, and have added a few addendums to try and give this one some substance. Mind taking a look and tossing me some concrit? In particular I think I need help with the interview log. I've never been any good at writing speech.